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No. 249,625. Patented' Nov. 15,1881.

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NITED STATES PATENT Carien..

ALEXANDER S. HUBBARD, F NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNCR TO THE L. CANDEE 85 CO., OF SAME PLACE.

OVERSHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,625, dated November 15, 1,881. Application filed August G, Y1881. (Model.) l

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I,'ALEXANDER S. Hun BARD, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Overshoes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l, a side view; Fig. 2, a section on f line a: x, enlarged; Fig. 3, a transverse section of the outer or overlying flap, still further enlarged to better illustrate one part of the invention.

This invention relates to an improvementin that class of overshoes which are open at one or both sides for convenience in placing the shoe upon the foot, and in which that opening is filled by a gore shaped piece attached by one edge to the rear part or quarter, and by the other edge to the front part or vamp, and folded or doubled so as to produce a bellowslike flap, which will permit the expansion of the shoe-opening for the insertion of the foot, and then folded onto the foot when the upper is closed over, so as to prevent snow or water from entering the joint between the vamp and quarter. v

In the manufacture of this class ot' shoes the lining is made from a thick woolly fabric first fitted closely to the last, then the upper placed over that lining, the gore-ap doubled, soas to be engaged with the vamp and quarter outside the lining; then the piece of lining which lies inside the folded gore-flap is cutout, when the shoe is taken from the last. This limits the extent of the gore-iap to the extent of the inside one edge of the lining, the edges of the flap attached to the quarter and to the vamp opposite the edge under which the doubled edge of the gore-Hap is inserted, and also in making the gore-Hap of two thicknesses of ma- 5 5 terial, and at thejunction of the flap with the vamp one thickness is turned forward and the other backward, so that the strain upon the gore, whether it be forward or backward, will be resisted accordingly by the fabric which 6o runs in the direction of the strain, as more fully hereinafter described.

- In Fig. l I show a shoe of the class in which the vamp lies backward over the quarter, but

it will be understood that the invention applies 65 to shoes in which the quarter overlaps the vamp.

A represents the usual ;foxing, B the vamp, and C the quarter. The lining a, represented by an irregular section-line, (see Fig. 2,) is first applied to the last in the usual manner, so as 7o to closely t the same, and the quarter C may be applied thereto in the usual manner. A piece is then cut out of the lining at the side on substantially the ankle-line, as from b to c, then the vamp is applied, and the folded gore Dis introduced, its doubled edge extending forward inside the lining, as at c, the vamp part of the lining raised from the last for this purpose, and then laid back over the doubled part of the gore-piece, as seen in Fig. 2, the edges 8o of the gore-piece then attached respectively to the vamp and quarter. By this construction I am enabled to extend the gore -piece by so much as it is introduced beneath the lining. It is best that as small a portion of the lining should be cutaway as possible. Part of it may be cut away, but simply making a slit on substantially the ankleline, so that the folded part of the gore will extend inside the lining and the lining lie upon the gore-piece the same 9o as it would upon the last, and the vamp applied to it in the usual manner.

In case of the quarter overlapping the vamp, as in Arctics, it will be understood that it will be the quarter portion of the lining which is raised from the last and the rear doubled part of the gorepiece which is inserted inside the lining.

As seen in Fig. 2, the gore-piece D is made of' two thicknesses, f h. At the point where roo the gore-piece is attached to the vamp one thickness, h,is turned in one direction onto the vamp B, and the other thickness,b, in the opposite direction, so that as the strain comes from a pull, as it'were, to the left, as in broken lines, the part h resists the strain 'in a direct line and prevents what would be a ripping` or tearing strain upon the gore at b at its connection with the vamp, and in the opposite direction the strain will come upon the part b to protect the part h.

' I claim- 1. The herein-described method of securing the bellows-like gore-piece which connects the vamp and quarter Yof a water proof overshoe, consisting in introducing lthe doubled edge of said gore through a slit in the lining, as shown, in the process of manufacture, that the folded edge of the gore-piece will lie inside the lining of the shoe, substantially as described.

2. In an overshoe having a bellows-like gore piece connecting the vamp and quarter, the said gore-piece composed of two thicknesses, one of whieh,at thejunction of the gore-piece With the vamp, extends upon the inner surface of the vamp in one direction, and the other thickness in the opposite direction, substantially as described.

ALEXANDER S. HUBBARD.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. FOWLER, J oHN H. PARDEE. l 

